There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLISI don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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